Paulina Grzybowicz is a first-year student in the dual M.S. in Library and Information Science / M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program at UIUC. She also currently works in Slavic languages cataloging at the Main Library’s Acquisitions and Cataloguing Services. Before UIUC, Paulina earned her B.S. in Computer Science from DePaul University in Chicago. She has several years of professional experience in software engineering and IT. In 2022-23, she was awarded a Fulbright grant, conducting HCI research at the HumanTech Center for Social and Technological Innovation in Warsaw, Poland. Her academic pursuits are driven by an interest in human-computer interaction, algorithmic bias, and critical data studies, with a goal of connecting technological developments to the lived experiences of communities.